Elevate your practice with twisting yoga poses and explore their benefits for flexibility and stress relief.
(As an added bonus, youll even work on your stability with somebalancing poses.)
This class is going to leave you feeling sweaty and refreshed at once.
35 minutes of twisting yoga poses, coming right up
1.
Stretch your arms forward and breathe.
Extend your right leg straight back and your left arms straight forward without allowing your back to arch.
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Brace your core and tap your right toes to the outside of your left foot.
Complete this move three times on both legs.
Bend your knees slightly and think of angling your sitz bones to the sky.
Take deep breaths here, bending one knee and straightening the other to work into the calves and thighs.
Bhujangasana (cobra pose):Come forward to plank and lower onto your belly.
Bring your fingertips alongside your ribs.
Return to downward dog.
Bring your hands to the floor and step back into down dog.
Repeat steps 12 and 13 on your left side.
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Engage your belly to revolve your chest in the direction of the sky.
Parsvottanasana (pyramid pose):Return to low lunge and straighten your right leg.
Fold forward as much as it’s possible for you to without curling your chest.
Place blocks under the hands to bring the floor up to you.
Your left leg, torso, and arms will turn your body into a T-shape.
Balance here, stretching through your arms to feel your core light up.
This is a twisty one, so breathe, breathe, breathe.
Bring your arms up so that theyre in that T-shape you know and love.
Bend more deeply into your knee and tuck your pelvis under.
Return to down dog.
Repeat steps six through 12 on the opposite leg.
Release the tension from your neck and jaw and swing your arms back and forth, back and forth.
Interlace your elbows if you like and just let everything hang.
Tadasana (mountain pose):Without locking your knees, slowly roll all the way up to standing.
Feel the burn here andkeep your spine as neutral as possible.
Come into downward dog, then repeat moves 13 through 16 on the opposite side.
If you might, keep the entirety of each foot planted on the ground.
you could slide a block right under your sitz bones, if that works better for your body.
Breathe as you twist your chest open.
Return to center and complete on the left, too.
Drop your legs over to the left and stretch your right fingers to the right.
See if it’s possible for you to plant both shoulder blades onto the floor.
Come back to center and twist to the opposite side.
How often should you do yoga twists?
This is because you want to allow your body enough time to rest and recover.
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